There has been another spawning of these Nagyi – this time on August 18th. I have been able to get good photos of the developing eggs and larvae over the past 6 days 🙂
Day of spawning – looks like ~30 eggs, so more than previous spawnings.
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Here the larvae at this morning – 132 hours just 5 and a half days later.
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This evening they were really becoming free swimming and some were leaving the spawning nest of the film canister – good, but – the female was observed patrolling around below the canister and picking off the fry as they swam out – not good. So, although I have a nice series of photos of the developing larvae every 12 hours to show for it, I’m not sure how many fry actually have survived/escaped the female. So next time I will have to remove the female or the fry while still in the canister, as described by some folks on the forum.